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A Country Can Best Heal When it Acknowledges Past Injustices says Sociologist

A Country Can Best Heal When it Acknowledges Past Injustices says Sociologist

What would happen if you lost your land and ended up as a second-class citizen in your own country? asks American medical sociologist Robert Bartholomew in an opinion piece for Psychology Today. “New Zealand is a land…

A Country Can Best Heal When it Acknowledges Past Injustices says Sociologist

A Country Can Best Heal When it Acknowledges Past Injustices says Sociologist

What would happen if you lost your land and ended up as a second-class citizen in your own country? asks American medical sociologist Robert Bartholomew in an opinion for Psychology Today. “New Zealand is a land…

Consonant clash

Consonant clash

The New Zealand Geographic Board has announced the River City, Wanganui should be spelled Whanganui, after considering an application by Whanganui iwi, Te Runanga o Tupoho. This single letter has raised the ire of…

Good Background for Conciliation

Good Background for Conciliation

South African immigrant Gregory Fortuin, New Zealand’s new race relations conciliator, has his experience of “ugly and oppressive racism” under apartheid to motivate him in his new job.